Day 91

Saturday April 19th

Today we woke up around 8:00. I needed to take a shower, but the the shower the bathroom isn't exactly the best. Its the hand-held kind of shower where the spigot doesn't say up. So i had to wedge a bar of soap in it to make it stay up. I should of been engineer. I actually sometimes think I should have been, because then I could have some real-life skills to bring to the table on solving the worlds problems. I mean what kind of skills does a poli-sci major really provide? I don't know if I have the skills to make it in politics. But then who really does...
Okay, so breakfast I ate the continental breakfast and I ate a lot. I also made some sandwiches and stuffed them in my pocket for later. This way I don't have to buy lunch. I felt pretty proud of my resourcefulness. Afterwards we returned to downtown and did the walking tour in reverse. The walking tour is just as it sounds. You walk through the main part of town and check out all the sweet sights. We had started the tour yesterday and only really got to the central park before we stopped and found food. This means we got to see the Parliament building and the famous changing of the guard. Today we saw a number of churches, including a Zombie Church which basically just takes stones and parts from other churches and incorporates those parts into itself. We also walked by the Roman Agora and checked out a few museums. We really didn't want to pay for anything, but eventually caved and checked out the turkish baths. This was a waste of the Euro. It was really boring, and didn't really have anything other then a slideshow, in greek. We got up on the hills around the Acropolis and looked over the city. Afterwards we climbed one of the major hills in the city, Lycabettus hill, which apparently is named after the wolves that used to patrol the hill in the old days. At the top of the hill is the Church of St. George. I think the name is different in greek, because I couldn't pronounce it. We met some other AUC students, including Taylor, my boxing buddy, up there and watched the sun set over Athens. It was pretty amazing.
Another List: More things that rock about Athens.
-Weather, sunny and warm
-Cleanliness
-It looks and smells like San Francisco or the west in general. They have the same kind of flowers, the hills, and the weather.
-The history. This is the birthplace of the West
-the monuments
-the atmosphere. It just feels like a city, rather than a conglomeration of people like Cairo. Cairo is full of self-sustaining independently operating neighborhoods.